I’d turned fairly cynical, not believing in the goodness of mankind or the existence of God, but just as the header above says, life had ways of telling me I was wrong–this time through email. But, the stubborn me kept on deleting all those mails. You see, I paid for it, or rather, did not get paid! 😦

Those Burkinabès from Burkina Faso, the kindest souls to exist (yess, essouls exist!), had been sending me money, with God only knows how many zeros (couldn’t count them). And all I thought was “Puny humans! Think I’m a fool?“

But on getting a mail, which wasn’t from Burkina Faso, I instantly knew it was a God send! So what if the sender had ‘harm’ in its ID? Trust (Vishwas) is all that’s required. O:-)

NAME:BIRTH DATE:AGE:SEX (ENTERING FREQUENCY ONLY INCREASES RISK OF DISQUALIFICATION):MARITIAL STATUS:HOME ADDRESS:OCCUPATION:POSITION:OFFICE:TEL:MOBILE:DECLARATION: I ________, hereby declare that theinformation given aboveis correct to the best of myknowledge.—The message was scannedfor viruses anddangerous content added byOpenProtect (www.openprotect.com), and isbelieved to be cleansing.

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I’d promptly sent my details including bank account’s (otherwise how does anyone transfer money, huh?). Knowing money attracts money, to ensure they sent heaps of it, I deposited 20 k more rupees. But my balance hasn’t increased a single cent, yet 😦

Readers might think, my outlook is too ‘negative’ but now I think it was just an ‘electron’ic mail, after all 😦

Moral of the story:God/God’s email account do not existElectrons are negatively charged 😦

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PPS: To all readers of this post: Read the entire linked comment by Vishwas, to enjoy this post to the fullest. And beware! Don’t ever pay him any money, though you may *pay* his blog (click, but do not send him any money!) a visit, which though safe for your financial health, may not be entirely safe otherwise, especially if your lungs cannot afford some strenous exercises! 😉

Well, why would anyone take offence at being labeled the “kindest souls ever”? Or is it the stripping off of their bodies implicit in such usage that would offend them? And I’ve extolled thus, the kindness of only those who’d tried to make me richer through their emails. And for them I reserve my highest gratitude.

But honestly, it’s embarrassing I got it all wrong. I did this post without any sort of research (despite the lurking trepidation), and now it shows. I’d come across way too many times on the net that they were Nigerians. Should’ve confirmed myself.

I got even the spelling wrong. 😦

Thanks a lot for pointing out my mistakes, and all the more, for doing it so gracefully (almost, artistically, shall I say?)! 🙂

I’d read your comment on email, without knowing you’d sent the Wikipedia link, but I realized I must have screwed up big time from your tone! 😛 Anyway, Wikipedia is my primary source of information for most things.

Now because of you, I know a bit more about that country, and how the country’s name turns out to be so ironic in light of emails we keep on getting! Might become a cause for some other joke (but, somewhere else 😉 )

I also understand that those emails could be originating outside Burkina Faso, with don’t know what purpose. Don’t know if anyone responds to them in earnest.

You are so fucking stupid man!!!!!!!!! I totally hate you right now! Even I got a text message and I instantly knew it was a scam! Why the hell did you deposit 20k!!! Thank god you didn’t deposit 20m!!! Lol Oh my gawd I am so fucking hyper right now my BP is like 500/350 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahaha.. Fantastic. My friend got a spam SMS. She knew that it was a spam. But the amount of money it promised made her nuts, n she hunted and explored every possibility that implied it was ‘real’. Ah the lust of money!!! 😛 😛

Sigh Ketan I’m so sorry if I embarrassed you! I just didn’t know if you actually lost money or not! I mean I didn’t mean to embarrass you !!! My frustrations still haven’t worn off! So I must have over reacted! 😦 And I’m so sorry once again!

Phew! Thank god! More than anything, I’m relieved you didn’t lose your money! If you did, then I’d hunt you down and bitch slap you and bitch slap you some more and steal all your possessions, leaving you in your pink polka dot chaddis and fly back! 😛 Lol